Highlighting Homeschooling: Empowering Parents and Inspiring Children - Softcover

Bethany M. Gardiner M.D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0983042004 ISBN 13: 9780983042006

Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press, 2011

Synopsis

Ever wondered about homeschooling? Or have you decided to start home- schooling but are wondering what’s next? Highlighting Homeschooling will guide you through every step of the homeschooling process, from making the initial choice to choosing a curriculum to launching your children successfully into college and beyond. Discover what has worked and what hasn’t for other homeschooling families while you learn how to develop your own individual style. Allow your family to grow closer, learn how to deal with those who don’t understand your choices, learn how to deal with those who don’t understand your choices, and find fulfillment in your role as the primary educator without losing yourself in the process, all while providing a superior education for your children. Highlighting Homeschooling will change the way you look at educating at home.

1. Finalist - First Horizon Award through the Eric Hoffer Awards. This award honors superior work by debut authors.

2. Finalist - Category Education/Academic - 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

3. Finalist - Category Parenting/Family - 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards

4. Silver Medalist - Living Now Book Awards - Category Family/Parenting

About this title

About the Author

Bethany M. Gardiner, M.D. is a seasoned homeschooling mother with over a decade of experience in homeschooling her own children and teaching co-op classes for other homeschoolers. A National Merit Scholar who was accepted into the Honors Program at the University of Florida, she graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor’s of Science in Mathematics and a Bachelor’s of Arts in Statistics. Following graduation, she attended medical school at the University of Florida, graduating with honors in 1994. After completing medical school, Dr. Gardiner did her internship and residency at the University of Florida’s Urban Campus, where she received the Resident Student Teacher Award. Upon completion of residency, she joined Interlachen Pediatrics in Orlando, FL. She is a board certi- fied pediatrician and an internationally board certified lactation consultant. In addition to her homeschooling activities, Dr. Gardiner is very involved in vol- unteer work, including serving as a leader of her daughter’s Girl Scout troop for the past seven years and a merit badge counselor for her son’s Boy Scout troop. She also volunteered in the post Hurricane Katrina relief effort helping run the children’s unit of a field hospital in Louisiana and working at a Red Cross shelter. Currently Dr. Gardiner lives in Utah, where she enjoys hiking, reading, needle- work, and traveling, and is married to the same man she met as a freshman in college twenty-five years ago.

Edition details

• Publisher: Greenleaf Book Group Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0983042004
• ISBN 13: 9780983042006
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 211
• Editor: Matthew Perry, Linda Walton
• Illustrator: Lucas Gibson